For the past year or so, I've been educating myself on real estate investing by reading books (many published by BiggerPockets), articles, and watching videos. 

The 500 came from a Brandon video (the host of biggerpockets).

After a few weeks, we found a property and asked Agent A to contact the sell side agent/broker so that Agent A can provide a video tour for myself.

As a millennial, I can tell you this would be an amazing perk for folks who work from home, especially if you add some video teleconferencing units or the ability to share to a bluetooth projector, etc.

Social media marketing, direct mail, website marketing, social videos (FB, YouTube, IG, etc.).  

Compared with the BiggerPockets videos, I noticed that the prices of homes here are a lot more expensive.

Try reading books and listening to podcast/watching videos to get some of the basics.

A lot of successful investors are big picture people - they hire a book keeper.If you want to better understand what's going on in the Milwaukee market go to my BP profile page and check out the monthly market update video.

In response to the question, as to how hard the current 2020 Recession will hit, (there's 2 videos, I found on U-Tube, the last time I checked it, which I found on the right-hand side bar, of related videos to what I was seeking.

Everyone starts off nervous even though you’ve read a lot of books, hear podcasts or watch a lot of YouTube videos...